Harold Shipman was a British doctor who is one of the deadliest serial killers in history, believed to have murdered about 250 of his patients. In 2000 Shipman was convicted on 15 counts of murder and sentenced to life in prison; four years later he died by suicide. A government inquiry was ordered to determine how many more patients Shipman may have murdered; in 2005 an official report found that he had killed an estimated 250 people beginning in 1971. In most cases, Shipman injected the victim with a lethal dose of the painkiller diamorphine and then signed a death certificate attributing the incident to natural causes. His motives were unclear.
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